2000 BC National Cheesecake Day is observed annually on July 30th. The first cheesecake may have been created on the Greek island of Samos. Physical anthropologists excavated cheese molds there which were dated circa 2000 BC.
657 The Spaniards first introduced the use of the organ in churches in the fifth century. The more wide spread use of church organ music is traditionally believed to date from the time of Vitalian's papacy between July 30, 657 and January 27, 672. Aldhelm built the first pipe organ in England around 700. It was described as a "mighty instrument with innumerable tones, blown with bellows, and enclosed in a gilded case."
762 Al-Mansur, the Caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids in on July 30, 762 AD. The city was designed as a circle about 2 km in diameter, leading it to be known as the "Round City". Baghdad was likely the largest city in the world from shortly after its foundation until the 930s, when it was tied by Córdoba. Several estimates suggest that the city contained over a million inhabitants at its peak.
1502 Christopher Columbus became the first European to visit Honduras when he landed at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the country's coast on July 30, 1502, during his fourth voyage. Honduras literally means "depths" in Spanish. The country's name may refer to Columbus's alleged quote that "Gracias a Dios que hemos salido de esas Honduras" ("Thank God we have departed from those depths").
1619 The Virginia General Assembly holds the distinction of being the oldest continuous law-making body in the Americas. It was established on July 30, 1619, in the English colony of Virginia. The assembly was founded to create a legislative body for the colonists in Virginia and was an important milestone in the development of representative government in the early English colonies.
1683 In 1660 Louis XIV of France married Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain as part of the Peace of Pyrenees which brought the Franco Spanish War to the end. Famed for her virtue and piety, Maria Theresa is frequently viewed as an object of pity in historical accounts of her husband's reign, since she had no choice but to tolerate his many illicit love affairs. When she died painfully on July 30, 1683, at Versailles, Louis XIV said: "This is the first trouble which she has given me."
1700 The UK's first Prime Minister Robert Walpole married Catherine Shorter at Knightsbridge chapel on July 30, 1700. She was the daughter of John Shorter a Baltic timber merchant of Bybrook in Ashford, Kent. Catherine was described in Coxe's Memoirs as "a woman of exquisite beauty and accomplished manners". Together they had two daughters and three sons but Walpole took a number of mistresses. After Catherine died in 1737, Walpole married his favorite mistress, Maria Skerritt,
1729 The city of Baltimore was founded on July 30, 1729. It is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, (1605–1675), a member of the Irish House of Lords and the founding proprietor of the Colony and Province of Maryland.
1792 Revolutionaries from Marseilles regularly sang Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle's stirring marching song "Chant de Guerre pour l'armee du Rhin" as they marched to Paris after a young volunteer from Montpellier called François Mireur had performed it at a patriotic gathering. These volunteers sung it as they were making their entrance into the city of Paris on July 30, 1792. The Parisians, ignorant of the tune called it the Song of Marseilles, or "La Marseillaise."
1818 Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë was born in a bleak, Georgian Vicarage in Market Street, Thornton, West Yorkshire on July 30, 1818. Emily had four sisters including Charlotte who wrote Jane Eyre and Anne who penned Agnes Grey. They were bought up by their Irish clergyman father, Patrick, at Haworth Rectory, in Church Street, Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. Their Cornish mother, Maria, had died in 1821 at the age of 37 of cancer.
1863 Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 on a prosperous farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan. Henry was passionate about mechanics, preferring to tinker in his father's shop over doing farm chores. He became fascinated by engines and one day Henry noticed a tractor parked by the side of the road. He studied the mechanism and asked the driver how fast the engine could run. The reply of 200 turns a minute gave Henry the inspiration for the motor car business.
1890 A recording of Florence Nightingale speaking was made on July 30, 1890 to raise money for the impoverished veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade. The recording was made on a wax cylinder by Colonel Gouraud, Thomas Edison's representative in Britain. It is the only known recording of Nightingale's voice.
1898 Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, died on July 30, 1898 at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, north Germany, where he is entombed in the Bismarck Mausoleum. Bismarck changed Germany from an unruly collection of states dominated by Prussia to a rich powerful country by provoking wars with Denmark, Austria and France. The ensuing patriotic fever united all the states and in 1871 Bismarck founded the new German empire.
1898 The English sculptor Henry Moore was born on July 30, 1898. He was known for producing semiabstract bronze sculptures as public art, which can be found as far afield as London, Jerusalem and Hong Kong. After his death, Moore's total art output was valued at £130 million.
1930 Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of a home crowd of 93,000 at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo on July 30, 1930 to win the first Football World Cup. Uruguay also won the Football World Cup in 1950. It is the smallest country by population to win the World Cup.
657 The Spaniards first introduced the use of the organ in churches in the fifth century. The more wide spread use of church organ music is traditionally believed to date from the time of Vitalian's papacy between July 30, 657 and January 27, 672. Aldhelm built the first pipe organ in England around 700. It was described as a "mighty instrument with innumerable tones, blown with bellows, and enclosed in a gilded case."
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| The pipe organ in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris |
762 Al-Mansur, the Caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids in on July 30, 762 AD. The city was designed as a circle about 2 km in diameter, leading it to be known as the "Round City". Baghdad was likely the largest city in the world from shortly after its foundation until the 930s, when it was tied by Córdoba. Several estimates suggest that the city contained over a million inhabitants at its peak.
1502 Christopher Columbus became the first European to visit Honduras when he landed at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the country's coast on July 30, 1502, during his fourth voyage. Honduras literally means "depths" in Spanish. The country's name may refer to Columbus's alleged quote that "Gracias a Dios que hemos salido de esas Honduras" ("Thank God we have departed from those depths").
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| Columbus's fourth voyage. By Keith Pickering |
1619 The Virginia General Assembly holds the distinction of being the oldest continuous law-making body in the Americas. It was established on July 30, 1619, in the English colony of Virginia. The assembly was founded to create a legislative body for the colonists in Virginia and was an important milestone in the development of representative government in the early English colonies.
1683 In 1660 Louis XIV of France married Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain as part of the Peace of Pyrenees which brought the Franco Spanish War to the end. Famed for her virtue and piety, Maria Theresa is frequently viewed as an object of pity in historical accounts of her husband's reign, since she had no choice but to tolerate his many illicit love affairs. When she died painfully on July 30, 1683, at Versailles, Louis XIV said: "This is the first trouble which she has given me."
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| June 1660; Maria Theresa is handed over to the French and Louis XIV. |
1700 The UK's first Prime Minister Robert Walpole married Catherine Shorter at Knightsbridge chapel on July 30, 1700. She was the daughter of John Shorter a Baltic timber merchant of Bybrook in Ashford, Kent. Catherine was described in Coxe's Memoirs as "a woman of exquisite beauty and accomplished manners". Together they had two daughters and three sons but Walpole took a number of mistresses. After Catherine died in 1737, Walpole married his favorite mistress, Maria Skerritt,
1729 The city of Baltimore was founded on July 30, 1729. It is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, (1605–1675), a member of the Irish House of Lords and the founding proprietor of the Colony and Province of Maryland.
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| Baltimore Town in 1752, (at "The Basin") |
1792 Revolutionaries from Marseilles regularly sang Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle's stirring marching song "Chant de Guerre pour l'armee du Rhin" as they marched to Paris after a young volunteer from Montpellier called François Mireur had performed it at a patriotic gathering. These volunteers sung it as they were making their entrance into the city of Paris on July 30, 1792. The Parisians, ignorant of the tune called it the Song of Marseilles, or "La Marseillaise."
1818 Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë was born in a bleak, Georgian Vicarage in Market Street, Thornton, West Yorkshire on July 30, 1818. Emily had four sisters including Charlotte who wrote Jane Eyre and Anne who penned Agnes Grey. They were bought up by their Irish clergyman father, Patrick, at Haworth Rectory, in Church Street, Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. Their Cornish mother, Maria, had died in 1821 at the age of 37 of cancer.
1863 Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 on a prosperous farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan. Henry was passionate about mechanics, preferring to tinker in his father's shop over doing farm chores. He became fascinated by engines and one day Henry noticed a tractor parked by the side of the road. He studied the mechanism and asked the driver how fast the engine could run. The reply of 200 turns a minute gave Henry the inspiration for the motor car business.
1890 A recording of Florence Nightingale speaking was made on July 30, 1890 to raise money for the impoverished veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade. The recording was made on a wax cylinder by Colonel Gouraud, Thomas Edison's representative in Britain. It is the only known recording of Nightingale's voice.
1898 Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, died on July 30, 1898 at the age of 83 in Friedrichsruh, north Germany, where he is entombed in the Bismarck Mausoleum. Bismarck changed Germany from an unruly collection of states dominated by Prussia to a rich powerful country by provoking wars with Denmark, Austria and France. The ensuing patriotic fever united all the states and in 1871 Bismarck founded the new German empire.
1898 The English sculptor Henry Moore was born on July 30, 1898. He was known for producing semiabstract bronze sculptures as public art, which can be found as far afield as London, Jerusalem and Hong Kong. After his death, Moore's total art output was valued at £130 million.
1930 Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of a home crowd of 93,000 at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo on July 30, 1930 to win the first Football World Cup. Uruguay also won the Football World Cup in 1950. It is the smallest country by population to win the World Cup.
1932 Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees premiered on July 30, 1932. It was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process after several years of two-color Technicolor films. Flowers and Trees was also the first Academy Award winning animated cartoon short.
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947 in Thal, a small village in Austria to Aurelia (née Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger, who was the local chief of police. Schwarzenegger began weight training at the age of 15. and won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 . He is widely considered to be among the greatest bodybuilders of all time. Two years after he immigrated to America in 1968, Schwarzenegger made his film debut with Hercules in New York a.k.a. Hercules Goes Bananas./
1956 A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 30, 1956, authorized "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto. Following its adoption the phrase was inscribed on all American coins and banknotes.
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans on July 30, 1965. The bill-signing ceremony took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Harry S. Truman was enrolled as Medicare's first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card. Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become the first president to propose national health insurance, an initiative that was opposed by Congress at the time.
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| President Johnson signing the Medicare amendment with Harry S Truman |
1980 The South Pacific Vanuatu islands were first reached from Europe in 1606 by a Spanish expedition and named the New Hebrides by Captain James Cook in 1774. In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago. The New Hebrides (or Nouvelles Hebrides) were joint-administered by the two countries from 1906. On July 30, 1980 the New Hebrides became independent, within the Commonwealth, as the Republic of Vanuatu.
1989 Professional rodeo cowboy Cody Lambert created the protective vest that most professional bull riders now wear, after seeing the death of his friend, Lane Frost at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on July 30, 1989.
2006 The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops played its final broadcast on BBC on July 30, 2006. It had debuted on New Years Day 1964 at 6:35 pm. Top of the Pops was a significant part of British pop culture for over 40 years. It introduced many people to new music, and it helped to make some of the biggest names in music household names
2016 The two-part West End Harry Potter stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered on July 30, 2016. The play is set 19 years after the events of the Harry Potter series, and it follows the lives of Harry, Ron, and Hermione's children. Written by Jack Thorne, it is based on an original story written by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne.
2006 The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops played its final broadcast on BBC on July 30, 2006. It had debuted on New Years Day 1964 at 6:35 pm. Top of the Pops was a significant part of British pop culture for over 40 years. It introduced many people to new music, and it helped to make some of the biggest names in music household names
2016 The two-part West End Harry Potter stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered on July 30, 2016. The play is set 19 years after the events of the Harry Potter series, and it follows the lives of Harry, Ron, and Hermione's children. Written by Jack Thorne, it is based on an original story written by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne.
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